Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour 2020 - 1. Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple and Akagi-jinja Shrine

Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour 2020
1. Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple and Akagi-jinja Shrine
This video travels Bishamonten and Akagi-jinja Shrine, one of the largest stages of Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour. Every year, the special stage at Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple, which is called “Koshakuba”, is set, and various types of storytelling are performed. Also, utilizing the large stairs at the Akagi-jinja Shrine Grounds, traditional Japanese instruments and various music instruments collaborate with each other, and various traditional performance arts play at Kaguraden Stage. The chief priest of the Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple and the Mayor of Shinjuku appear as interviewees in this video. The navigator is a “Koudan” storyteller Kanda Riei, she belongs to Kanda Shori III, the Living National Treasure of Japan. She has appeared in this festival four times since she was Futatsume the second crew performer. She livens up the festival over this video.
Filming cooperation
Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple
Akagi-jinja Shrine
THEGLEE
Navigator
Kanda Riei (“Koudan” storytelling)
Interview
Shimada Gyoji (Bishamonten Abbot)
Yoshizumi Kenichi (Mayor of Shinjuku)
Past Footage
Kagurazaka Rakuza - Storytellers′ Theater
Fujitaka Rieko (“Chikuzen biwa” Five-stringed Japanese lute)
Takemoto Kyonosuke × Tsuruzawa Kazu (Gidayu-bushi)
Tamagawa Nanafuku x Sawamura Toyoko(Rokyoku)
Traditional Song and Dance Live
“Kodachi”, (Kiba Daisuke/ “Kokyu” Japanese fiddle x Adachi Tomonori/ Electronic keyboard and synthesizer)
Tone (Mitsuka Yukihiko/ “Shakuhachi” bamboo flute x Ono Mihoko/ “Sou” Japanese harp x Soyama Ryoichi/ guitar)
Organized by Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) , NPO Ikimachi Club
Supported by and in cooperation with Tokyo Metropolitan Government
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